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HOW LOS ANGELES FICTION AUTHORS MAKE A LIVING
by
Emily Cara Pauker
_____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PRINT JOURNALISM)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Emily Cara Pauker

Authors support themselves in a variety of ways. For many writers in Southern California, working at a university or college seems the most common and most coveted of day jobs. It allows for steady hours so that a professor or instructor can devote the rest of his or her time to writing. Others, however, pay the bills with day jobs such as book clerk, Amazon.com editor, journalist, high school teacher and oil refinery operator, psychologist, poet, translator, playwright, university teaching assistant, nonprofit employee, hostess, nanny, and screenwriter. The money that authors of fiction can earn on the side, varies as much as their job descriptions. In six profiles, six authors find creative ways to stay afloat financially in the Los Angeles fiction marketplace.

HOW LOS ANGELES FICTION AUTHORS MAKE A LIVING
by
Emily Cara Pauker
_____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PRINT JOURNALISM)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Emily Cara Pauker